Chapter 3.
Excess
weight and Aging.
Effect on longevity
If you have an interest in living a long life and enjoying it to the
fullest then you must if you are overweight seriously work on yourself
to correct the imbalance.
Statistics are very clear... if you are overweight the chances of you
living a long life go down dramatically. To put this into a real life
perspective, reflect when you last saw an overweight 90 year old? I
haven't seen any?
'Nuff' said...
Impact
on degenerative disease
This is perhaps an even more important issue that not living as long.
Being overweight is perhaps the biggest single contributor to degenerative
disease than anything else. Just spend a little time reflecting on this
issue...
Imagine if you will the extra loading that each pound of what is effectively
'dead' flesh has on your organs. First of all you have to carry the
extra fat around wherever you go. Of course you don't really notice
how draining this is because it creeps up on you slowly…but you
can get a good idea. Put say 30 or 40 pounds of groceries in a bag and
tie it around your waist. Walk around with that whilst you are doing
your daily chores and then you will have a much better appreciation
of just how much extra load you are putting on your body.
This additional load is not just on the muscles and joints but on all
your organs as well. Your heart has to work overtime because it has
to push blood through literally miles of extra capillaries for each
additional pound of excess fat. Unlike fat, muscle pays for its keep
in a multitude of different ways but fat is inert and is a major drain
on the resources of the body.
It is not only
the heart that is affected. It is the liver, kidneys and all the other
organs as well. They all have to work in overload mode trying to correct
imbalances in the body. As with anything whether it is a human or a
machine, if you run it in overload mode AND out of balance, something
is going to break!!
In the case of the human body that 'breakage' may well manifest itself
as any one of a multitude of degenerative diseases all of which can
have a devastating impact on your life and your loved ones.
This should be your prime motivation in wishing to normalize your weight!
I accept that it is desirable to look good in a swimsuit and everyone
should make an effort to achieve this…BUT this benefit should
be a natural by product of your program. When you get a good looking
body it is crucial that you can enjoy it by having vibrant health. You
won't enjoy it if you are looking out at the world from a hospital bed.
This leads me on to the next chapter...
Chapter 4.
The Dangers
of Dieting
Why it is dangerous to diet...
You should NEVER diet! They do NOT work long term and they are dangerous!
The information in this report will enable you to lose weight without
dieting, without going hungry, without putting your health in danger
AND it will be permanent!
When you diet you are setting up all sorts of abnormal conditions and
imbalances in your body. The human body is not designed to be deprived
of food for any long period of time. If it is, you will set up all sorts
of imbalances which will have a negative impact on your health.
Why diets
always fail
There are many different types of diets promoted by companies and individuals
alike. There is little point in identifying any of them in this report
and commenting on them individually because virtually all of them are
variations of the low fat, carbohydrate diet.
The promotion of these diets, or products associated with them is usually
accompanied by impressive before and after photos. Don't believe any
of it... If indeed the photos are real you can rest assured that it
is not typical and has been achieved by sheer willpower and very likely
at the expense of overall health.
Why these diets do not and cannot work is that they rely on calorie
restriction and fail to address the underlying cause of insulin imbalance...
in fact they make it worse and as such when you are on these diets you
are perpetually hungry which is why they cannot be sustained for more
than a few weeks or months.
A significant proportion of the weight that you will lose in the early
stages of these diets is water and lean muscle and only a small amount
of the lost weight is fat. Ironically, it is setting you up to become
fatter...
I'll explain.
When you diet three significant things happen which impact on your body
weight:
- 1. You lose
lean body mass. This means your muscles get smaller and so you lose
part of your body's ability to burn fat. More info on this later in
the report.
- 2. You set
up a mechanism in your body whereby your body goes into 'thrifty'
mode. A bit like the genes I was talking about in the previous chapter!
This means that you can eat fewer and fewer calories and still not
be able to burn off fat.
- 3. When you
go off the diet... and you will... your weight will quickly return
to what it was EXCEPT this time you have more fat tissue and less
muscle tissue.
These three things
will happen every time that you diet and each time it becomes harder
to lose the weight and each time you will gain more when you stop the
diet. I am sure that you have seen the results of people who diet on
a regular basis... its almost always the same.
The failure of diets is nothing to do with
WILL POWER... it is all to do with basic biology. So, don't 'beat yourself'
up if you have tried diets and they have not worked. It is not your
fault and it is not through being weak minded. You can't fight Mother
Nature! You must work with her if you want a lean healthy body. Dieting
is not the way!
Chapter 5.
The Different
approaches to weight loss
Exercise, not needed to lose weight but critical for good health.
You will often hear it said that you can't lose weight without exercise.
This of course is nonsense. If you start eating very little you will
lose weight even if you have very little activity. HOWEVER, whether
you need to lose weight or not you really should for your own health's
sake plan a regular exercise program for yourself combining aerobics
and weight training... NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE!
More in a later chapter...
Drugs
Some people turn to prescription drugs to help lose weight. This is
currently big business and many of them are promoted heavily on television
and endorsed by the medical profession. But like all prescription drugs
there are risks associated with their use and they do not address the
fundamental cause of the obesity in the first instance.
If you apply the principles outlined in this report you will not need
to resort to drugs to normalize your weight. In addition to the health
risks from using these drugs there is no guarantee that they will help.
Usually a low fat - high carbohydrate diet is recommended when using
these drugs which means any gains made will only be temporary.
Surgery
This is a pretty dramatic option. There are two types of surgery which
are popular.
- 1. Liposuction.
This process is as it sounds! It literally sucks fat out from under
the skin. This is achieved by using a device which is inserted under
the skin. This device has a nozzle and is connected to a suction pump.
As it is moved back and forward under the skin the fat that the nozzle
comes in contact with is removed. The drawback with this method is
that it can leave 'ripples' under the skin. Many people have had significant
'cosmetic' disasters with this process. It's a very superficial solution
and also only temporary.
- 2. The other
common surgery procedure is much more dramatic, and that is stomach
stapling. In this procedure the physical size of the stomach is reduced
dramatically by removing a substantial portion of the stomach and
stapling the remaining portion so the patient ends up with a very
small stomach.
The objective of this procedure is to make it impossible for the recipient
to eat very much. If they do so they will 'throw up'. As a result
their food intake is reduced dramatically and the weight loss is generally
permanent.
At what cost to
your health! I truly don't know as I have not studied this procedure
in depth. A former New Zealand prime minister had this procedure done
and the results were significant indeed. However, he is now suffering
from a serious terminal illness. Whether it is related I do not know.
Nonetheless I would consider this procedure to be one of last resort.
Appetite
suppressants
These can be in the form of both prescription drugs and supplements.
Your appetite does not need to be suppressed if you are eating correctly.
When you apply the principles in this report you will find that you
don't have cravings or hunger pangs any more. It is not good to suppress
your appetite artificially.
If you feel hungry your body is trying to give you a message that it
is lacking something. Unless you deal with the fundamental cause of
the problem appetite suppressants will at best only help temporarily...
at worst they will damage your health.
An exception to this is the use of omega 3 essential fatty acids. When
you have an adequate supply of them they will release a hormone called
cholecystokinin, or CCK from your stomach to your brain which conveys
a signal that you are satisfied. Some natural appetite suppressants
such as Bee Pollen are OK.
Low fat diets
What is rather ironic is that low fat diets are often actually quite
heavy in fat…but the wrong type of fat. When most people go on
a low fat diet they will purchase low fat foods from the supermarket.
Virtually all of these foods which are usually 'convenience' foods are
full of hydrogenated or transfats which are one of the most dangerous
substances that you can put in your body... yet most people do it every
day.
